Optometry Coding & Billing Alert
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Conjunctival Concretions
Published on Wed Sep 26, 2012 
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Texas Subscriber
Answer:
Report 65210 (Removal of foreign body, external eye; conjunctival embedded [includes concretions], subconjunctival, or scleral nonperforating) for removal of conjunctival concretions (372.54, Conjunctival concretions).If the optometrist removed concretions from only one eyelid, code only one unit of 65210. But if he also removes a corneal foreign body from the same eye, you can code separately with 65220 (
... corneal, without slit lamp) or 65222 (... corneal, with slit lamp).
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